AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 Passive

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI250

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 Passive

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250 and 24GB VRAM Quadro RTX 6000 Passive to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1700MHz vs 1560MHz)

More VRAM (128GB vs 24GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 672.0GB/s)

8704 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 Passive 's Advantages

Lower TDP (260W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI250 +214%

45.26 TFLOPS

Quadro RTX 6000 Passive

14.38 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI250

VS

Quadro RTX 6000 Passive

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Aug 2018

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1305 MHz

1700 MHz

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

1600 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

128GB

Memory Size

24GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR6

8192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

3277GB/s

Bandwidth

672.0GB/s

Render Config

208

Compute Units

-

SM Count

72

13312

Shading Units

4608

832

TMUs

288

0

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

576

-

RT Cores

72

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

16 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

0 MPixel/s

Pixel Rate

149.8 GPixel/s

1414 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

449.3 GTexel/s

362.1 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

28.75 TFLOPS

45.26 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.38 TFLOPS

45.26 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

449.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

260W

900 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Aldebaran

GPU Name

TU102

Aldebaran

GPU Variant

TU102-875-A1

CDNA 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

12 nm

58.2 billion

Transistors

18.6 billion

Unknown

Die Size

754 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

N/A

Shader Model

6.6

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